PUMA has designed the ultimate “flat box!”

The bag/box is made of a single folded sheet of cardboard in a resuable, recyclable PET bag, designed to protect shoes from the time they leave the factory until the customer gets them home.

Here’s how it works.

The “Clever Little Bag” will help PUMA reduce the water, energy and diesel used in manufacturing by more than 60% per year.

• Approximately 8,500 tons less paper will be consumed
• 20 million Megajoules of electricity will be saved
• 1 million liters less fuel oil will be used
• 1 million liters of water will be saved
• 500,000 liters of diesel will be saved during transport, and
• Up to 275 tons of plastic will be saved thanks to the replacement of traditional shopping bags with the lighter built-in bag

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Living in a home heated by a forced air furnace turns your dining room into a desert. The relative humidity in your house can drop into single digits; the average relative humidity in the Sahara Desert is 25%!

Rather than buy an over-engineered mechanical device that gulps electricity and can harbor harmful mildew and bacteria, you could strategically place a few of these passive wood humidifiers. Looking more like a bit of sculpture, the “mast humidifier” by Shin Okada functions by evaporation.

Known for its high-quality timber, rot-resistant qualities and lemony scent, the thinly sliced Hinoki mast absorbs water from the hull and diffuses it, and its intrinsic aroma, into the room.

Learn more – or buy it – at Spoon & Tomago.

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